中国Power !!!

[Nobunaga Oda]

http://www.sammyboy.com/showthread....old-only-PLATED!&p=787851&posted=1#post787851

Buy gold really cheated, transfer station north of Chiayi City, Taiwan, Mei Mei jewelry search well-known chain stores, found that this jewelry store to sell gold, gold-bearing component is very small, are silver or gold package Gold Package low-grade copper gold, cost just more than 1,000 pieces, it sold 30,000 to earn huge profits, estimated that at least a thousand were injured.

Mimi jewelry store employees was livid, investigators home, they still sell K gold ring, but the investigators brought these rings through an examination of professional equipment, all revealed the secret, is commonly known as silver or gold gold bag bag copper to fake K gold, normal 18K gold, gold should be 75%, the United States and the United States selling jewelry 18K gold ring, was found to have the highest gold content of not more than 4 percent, the cost of more than 1,000 pieces of the rings, resell 30,000, spread 30 times big earn dirty money.

Money making way, even the silver floor, directly say it is too exaggerated Association, Taipei City Bank Building Business Association president Li Wenqin, the industry has long been rumored that the United States and the United States between the K-gold jewelry to sell a problem, did not think to put exaggerated when K gold plated, the buyer or out to Europe, to be returned only to find deception customs inspection, the United States and the United States not only in-store selling jewelry, and even online shopping channel can buy, at least on a preliminary estimate of thousands of victims, gold for cash, the industry obtained illegally more than ten million or more.

http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url.../69/2wclq.html

鍍金裝K金 美美珠寶
華視 更新日期:"2011/08/05 15:09"
鍍金裝K金 美美珠寶"海削"30倍!

買金飾真的要小心被騙，嘉義市調站北上台北，搜索知名的美美珠寶連鎖店，結果發現，這間珠寶店賣的金飾，含 金成份非常少，都是金包銀或是金包銅的劣質金飾，成本只有1千多塊，卻賣到3萬塊賺取暴利，估計至少有上千 人都受害。

美美珠寶店裡員工臉色鐵青，調查員上門的時候，他們還在賣K金戒指，但是這些戒指透過調查員帶來的專業儀器 一檢驗，全部露餡，是俗稱的金包銀或是金包銅，來假冒K金，正常的18K金，含金量要有75%，美美珠寶賣 的18K金戒指，卻被驗出含金量最高不超過4%，成本1000多塊的戒指，轉手賣3萬，價差30倍大賺黑心 錢。

騙錢的方式，連銀樓公會直說太誇張，北市銀樓商業同業公會理事長李文欽，同業之間早就盛傳美美珠寶賣的K金 有問題，沒想到竟然誇張到把鍍金當K金，買家還是出到歐洲，被海關檢驗退貨才發現受騙，美美珠寶不但在店面 販售，連網路購物台都買得到，初步估計受害至少上千人，鍍金換現金，業者不法所得超過千萬以上 。

 

[singveld]

not fair to put taiwan fake into PRC fake lists.

 

[youtalkcock]

China Market Value: $168 Billion

• Ecstasy Price: $4.5 per tablet
• Heroin Price: $36.2 per gram
• Human Smuggling Price: $75,000 to USA / $41,800 to UK/ $15,000 to Italy
• Marijuana Price: $0.8 per gram
• Counterfeit Goods and Piracy Market: $60 Billion
• Book Piracy: $52 Million
• Counterfeit Wine: $685 Million
• Movie Piracy: $565 Million
• Music Piracy: $466.3 Million
• Software Piracy: $20100 Million (20.1 Billion)
• Video Game Piracy: $589.9 Million
• Drug Trafficking: $17 Billion
• Illegal Logging: $3.8 Billion
• Wildlife Smuggling: $10 Billion
• Cigarette Smuggling: $2.2 Billion
• Human Smuggling: $2 Billion
• Human Trafficking: $6,100 for boys, $500 for girls
• Organ Trafficking: $87,000 to buy kidney
• Prostitution: $73 Billion
• Total Country Black Market Value: $168 Billion

 

[Cestbon]

Prostitute have nearly half share. If added oversea exported prostitute . Total prostitute market by PRC are bigger than SG GDP.

 

[talkincock]

Police issue alert over new lottery scam
Two 'winners' receive letters asking them to deposit money; one is cheated of $12,200

Published on Aug 19, 2011

The scam uses coupons mailed from China which reveal prizes of US$88,888 when scratched. -- PHOTO: SINGAPORE POLICE FORCE

By Hoe Pei Shan

The letters come with scratch-and-win lottery coupons - and phone numbers of people described as previous winners.

In this latest lottery scam, the letters also ask the 'winners' to first deposit money before they can claim their prizes.

The Straits Times understands that two cases have been reported to the police since last month. The middle-aged letter recipients live in Yishun and Tanjong Rhu.

The police said one of them was cheated of US$10,100 (S$12,200), while the other smelt a rat and alerted the authorities.

Read the full story in Friday's edition of The Straits Times.​

 

[Windsor]

Police issue alert over new lottery scam
Two 'winners' receive letters asking them to deposit money; one is cheated of $12,200

In this latest lottery scam, the letters also ask the 'winners' to first deposit money before they can claim their prizes.

The Straits Times understands that two cases have been reported to the police since last month. The middle-aged letter recipients live in Yishun and Tanjong Rhu.

The police said one of them was cheated of US$10,100 (S$12,200), while the other smelt a rat and alerted the authorities.​

The sucker is greedy and stupid and deserved losing his money.

 

[talkincock]

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[Cuntamania]

These are the talents LKY and son want for our country!:oIo:

 

[talkincock]

http://www.sammyboy.com/showthread.php?104588-Singapore-restaurants-will-ban-all-Ah-Tiongs-very-soon

PRC changes baby diapers on dining table
Shin Min Daily News - 29 mins ago

A Chinese national family has enraged netizens with their inconsiderate antics.

The family of eight had been spotted by a netizen "Marcus" at what appears to be a Seoul Garden restaurant.

Marcus was taken aback when the family started changing their baby's diapers on the table while others are eating.

He added that the group was talking at "the top of their lungs" while eating, and an old man among them had taken off his shoes, propped his legs on the seats, and was scratching them.

Adding to that, a little girl in the group was making a lot of noise, and seemed very demanding and rude towards her parents.

Marcus feels that the family of Chinese nationals is unruly, rude and unhygienic. Most importantly, they need to learn some basic table manners and courtesy.

Source: Shin Min Daily News, 16 November 2011.

 

[Krizalid]

Duck, duck, goose! Guangdong rotisseries cheat with meat

Staff Reporter
2012-03-26
08:47 (GMT+8)

Cooks slice open a duck head and put the heart inside to make it look like a goose. (File photo/China Times)

The fairy tale of the Ugly Duckling has come to life in China with a novel twist as some restaurants in the southern province of Guangdong have been found to have altered the shape of a roast duck to make it look like a more expensive goose.

According to the Guangzhou Daily, goose is considered tastier than duck and sells for about double the price.

Some restaurants have looked to maximise their profits by offering cheaper goose breeds or frozen goose.

Some even less scrupulous restaurants meanwhile have reportedly been using a heated iron plate to press the flesh of a roast docks to make it appear to be a goose.

The two types of poultry have a similar taste and their appearance is almost identical after they are plucked and their limbs removed.

Some restaurants went so far as to make a slit in aduck's head and place the heart inside to masquerade as the distinctive bump on a goose's head.

A rotisserie cook said these practices are common in Guangdong.

Unwary diners often fail to realize that the goose they bought was actually duck since many people do not eat the head and many rotisseries do not label their meat.

 

[Krizalid]

Civil servant at 13? Chinese officials called out for fake resumes

Staff Reporter
2012-04-11
09:08 (GMT+8)

A document published by Changzhi shows an official claiming to have begun working when he would have been just 13 years old. (Internet photo)

Eight officials from Changzhi, a city in northern China's Shanxi province, have been accused of doctoring their resumes after a local newspaper published the documents along with those of 27 others, reports the Shanghai-based First Financial Daily. The officials are said to have made false claims about their work experience.

The information given on their resumes implies that the officials joined the civil service between the ages of 13 and 17, obviously long before graduating from high school or earning university degrees.

Two of the officials, 56-year-old Zhao Yaohua and 30-year-old Wang Rui, would have had to join the civil service at the ripe old age of 13 to accumulate the work experience provided on their resumes.

Another official, Li Yan, would have joined the civil service at 16, and five others at 17, the newspaper reported.

The local Changzhi Daily published the resumes in keeping with a regular practice that it follows whenever new officials are promoted to mid-ranking positions in the local government.

In response to the First Financial Daily's request for comments, an official from the provincial government said questions were initially raised by internet users. The government is now looking into the matter, the official said, promising to provide a more detailed explanation in the future.

The netizens' suspicions are not groundless. In February, the chief of Changzhi's education department, Li Fu, was found to have used his influence to obtain a teaching job for his son, who was still in his first year of university. Li's move came to light when his son assumed the position in 2010, claiming to have four years' work experience under his belt. Both father and son were sacked afterward.

It is not unusual for officials in Shanxi, and indeed elsewhere in China, to inflate work experience specified on their resumes in order to win promotions.

Last December, internet users queried the work experience of Cao Li, Communist Party chief of Anjiazhuang rural township in Shanxi; her resume showed that she began working with the local government long before she would have graduated from high school. Cao lost her job after an ensuing investigation found that her father, a senior local official, illegally reserved the position for her even before her graduation.

Similar cases have been discovered in several other counties, the newspaper said.

Zhu Xianqi, a spokesman for the Shanxi provincial party committee, told the First Financial Daily that no official would be promoted unless their age, work experience and tenure in the party can be verified.

 

[Krizalid]

China national jailed for fake gold scam

Published on May 16, 2012

-- PHOTO: SINGAPORE POLICE FORCE

They say all that glitters is not gold.

A housewife found this out to her cost after buying ingots and Buddha statues from two men who claimed to have unearthed them on a construction site.

They told her the items were antiques made of real gold, and even gave her a sample to test. But after handing over $110,000, she discovered they were fakes.

On Tuesday, China national Yang Zhenming was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in jail.

Read the full story in Wednesday's edition of The Straits Times.

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[Leungsam]

Must be the Chao tiongs.

 

[CheesePie]

Huawei included in US patent probe targeting 45 firms

2012-05-23
08:46 (GMT+8)

Huawei could have trouble selling some products in the US if a patent investigation does not go its way. (File photo/Xinhua)

The United States International Trade Commission has begun an investigation involving 45 companies worldwide, including Chinese electronics maker Huawei, over possible violation of a patent for adjustable USB connectors used in their electronics.

The investigation was triggered by a lawsuit filed in April by Texas-based patent holding company Anu IP. The company asked the commission to launch a "337 investigation" — referring to section 337 of the US Tariff Act of 1930. Section 337 is used to investigate foreign companies that violate intellectual property claims made by US firms. If found to have infringed on patents, the overseas companies are not allowed to sell the products in question in the US.

A decision made with section 337 carries heavier penalties than anti-dumping regulations. Companies can be forbidden from selling incriminating products at any time in the future.
The 45 companies under the investigation include Japanese electronics companies Panasonic and Toshiba, as well as South Korea's Samsung and Huawei of China, according to the Shanghai-based First Financial Daily.

The number of patent infringement investigations utilizing section 337 has been on the rise in the past decade, with 56 cases reported in 2010 alone, according to the US Department of Commerce. Cases related to Chinese companies are also increasing, with the record high 19 cases in 2010.

The investigation will require 45 days and punishment will be meted out, if necessary, 60 days after the verdict is handed down, according to US law.

 

[ChinaSucks]

Entire family contracts STD from a Shanghai hotel

Staff Reporter
2012-07-04
12:13 (GMT+8)

Who knows what you could contract from these nice-smelling bedsheets? (File photo/CFP)

A Chinese family's trip to Shanghai turned sour after they discovered they had all been infected with a sexually transmitted disease at a high-end hotel.

A man surnamed Li, his wife, three-year-old son, sister and parents went to Shanghai for a family trip in early June. To ensure a pleasant stay, Li booked a luxury suite at an expensive hotel in the city.

"The bathtub was white and clean and the bedsheets also smelt nice," he said. All adults and the child enjoyed their baths, according to Fjsen, a Chinese-language news website based in Fujian province.

Three weeks passed by when Li's son starting to complain about pain in his penis and his father found it covered in small warts. Li and the rest of the family members later also developed similar symptoms and went to hospital for treatment, Fjsen's report continued.

Their doctor said they had contracted HPV or genital warts, a sexually transmitted infection that spreads by skin contact with an infected person.

The virus can take three weeks to eight months to develop. The family very likely contracted the disease during their stay at the Shanghai hotel, said a director of the dermatologist unit in Zhangzhou, Fujian province.

Luxury suites at high-end hotels are often a place where illegal sexual services are performed, said the director. The bedsheets Li and his family slept upon may have had traces of the bodily fluids of infected persons.

 

[ChinaSucks]

Online sales of luxury goods in China boom despite counterfeits

Staff Reporter
2012-07-17
08:03 (GMT+8)

If it's significantly cheaper, it's probably a fake... (Internet photo)

Up to 80% of luxury products purchased over the internet in China are counterfeit, Hermes CEO Patrick Thomas told international media in June, though this has not had an effect on the thriving online sales of alleged fakes.

Some Chinese media outlets viewed Thomas's warning as a slap in the face for the country's e-commerce operators.

Buyers continue to be lured mainly by the remarkably low prices offered for well-known brands. The quality and texture of the products on offer seem to show little difference from authentic items.

In addition to Hermes, many international brands have launched assaults on Chinese online retailers. Tissot exposed fake timepieces sold online on Dangdang.com late last year and decided not to offer any warranties for its products purchased online.

In March this year, Swarovski, which sells crystal, jewelry and fashion lines, made a public announcement that the group has never authorized 360buy.com, Amazon.cn or other agents to sell its products online in the mainland China market. Other big names like LV, Gucci and Prada have made similar announcements.

In addition to textile products, executives of top-line cosmetics producers have also reported counterfeit products sold online. More than 30 of the country's B2C (business to customer) operators have also started offering these goods at websites like 360top.com.

Taobao.com, the leading Chinese C2C online shopping marketplace launched by Alibaba Group in 2003, is expected to boost its sales revenue to 20 billion yuan (US$3.15 billion) this year. It has also become one of the major channels for internet users to buy luxury products.

Market analysts said consumers should compare the prices for the products on offer. Those carrying price tags 50% lower than those charged at directly managed or authorized stores by major brands are very likely to be counterfeit. Those with prices 70% cheaper are definitely fakes, they said.

Some online store operators have defended their low prices, saying that they are able to acquire products through various channels, including procurements from abroad, to save taxes. Some products are significantly cheaper because certain fashionable but seasonable items have been replaced by new products rolled out by the original suppliers.

Certain items can be sold at a 90% discount because they are secondhand products released by the original owners, they said.

Multinational luxury goods suppliers have so far been unable to come up with effective countermeasures except for giving out repeated warnings and encouraging shoppers to visit their authorized retailers. Speeding up the process of opening more directly managed stores and appointing more designated retailers is another major step.

Some market analysts suggested that large companies should spend more funds educating consumers in China.

Same international brands carrying Chinese-language labeling can fetch different prices depending on whether the products were actually made in Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong or in mainland China. The prices for items produced in Japan or the United States are generally higher those for items made in Taiwan or Hong Kong, whose prices are in turn higher than products made on the mainland.

Most mainland Chinese consumers tend to order the products with the lowest prices regardless of quality, said market analysts.

 

[ChinaSucks]

http://izismile.com/2012/08/02/how_they_train_olympic_champions_in_china_56_pics.html

http://www.sammyboy.com/showthread.php?123931-How-They-Train-Olympic-Champions-in-China

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[ChinaSucks]

The fake 'minister' who duped China's Communist party for years

With his bouffant black hair, white short-sleeve shirt and endless boring speeches, he certainly seemed like a high-ranking Communist party official.

Zhao Xiyong
By Malcolm Moore, Beijing 11:12AM GMT 18 Mar 2013

But Zhao Xiyong, who has claimed since 2010 to be the head of China's State Council Research Office - giving him the rank of vice-minister - was an artful impostor.

For years, Mr Zhao pulled off a pitch-perfect impersonation of a leader from Beijing that local officials in the south western province of Yunnan, being subordinate in rank, did not dare to question.

He was allowed to give keynote talks at important conferences, seated with pride of place at the banquet table, and grovelled to by local officials. He would also frequently tour the province, delivering vague and empty speeches and greeting local Communist party chiefs.

A local radio station dutifully reported one of his visits, to a vegetable farm to the city of Yuxi, where he met the county's agriculture officials and led a delegation of 89 people on a tour of drought-affected areas.

"The government should make full use of its economic advantage, actively learning from other's experiences, and explore a new path that incorporates scientific research, production and marketing," he said, without any obvious meaning, to polite applause.

A chubby and jovial figure who often dangled a cigarette, Mr Zhao was an adept politician. In one speech, he praised the Yunnei car engine company as a well-loved brand in Europe and claimed it would "open a UK manufacturing base in January 2013".

He only seems to have overreached himself last November, when he promised delegates at a conference in Kunming, the capital of Yunnan, that the government had approved a new free-trade zone to boost the city's economy.

"Kunming, as the core city in the plan, will receive a huge boost to its industry and economy," he said. "I sincerely hope the local government and party creates a good environment for companies that invest here."

Perhaps to his dismay, his surprise announcement made the headlines in the local newspapers and prompted a flood of queries to the State Council for confirmation. On March 8, the State Council, China's cabinet, responded unambiguously.

"We have recently received reports that Zhao Xiyong is pretending to be the head of the State Council Research Office and an official of vice-minister level. We announce that he does not work for the State Council, and that no research team has ever been sent to Yunnan province," said a statement.

Mr Zhao's current whereabouts, and indeed his true identity, are unknown. If caught, he could face three to ten years in prison.

"He performed his official duties without a secretary, he organised events, made speeches, handled social activities, wrote calligraphy and cut ribbons, he successful cheated the State Council and provincial officials. He is in no way different from a real official!" commented one wag on the Chinese internet.

Additional reporting by Valentina Luo

 

[TellMeWhy]

China’s wily fake goods importers have Japanese officials on the run

PUBLISHED : Friday, 18 April, 2014, 10:30pm
UPDATED : Friday, 18 April, 2014, 10:30pm

Julian Ryall in Tokyo

An international crime investigator sorts out counterfeit foreign-brand bags and purses confiscated from two makers of the fake goods. Photo: EPA

An international crime investigator sorts out counterfeit foreign-brand bags and purses confiscated from two makers of the fake goods. Photo: EPA

Japanese fashion brands and customs authorities are struggling to keep up with the rapidly changing techniques employed by manufacturers of fake goods, as record amounts flood in from China.

Statistics released by Japan's customs show 28,135 fake items were seized at ports or airports last year, 5.7 per more than in 2012.

The most popular fakes are handbags, accounting for 44 per cent of the total, followed by clothes, at 15.6 per cent, and shoes, 10 per cent.

The finance ministry says the seized goods would have been valued at ¥13 billion (HK$984 million) if they had been genuine. But underlining the scale of the problem is the ministry's assessment that the Japanese market for fake brand-name products is worth ¥500 billion a year.

"The counterfeiters are changing their methods all the time," said Noriko Arai, deputy director of the Tokyo office of Union des Fabricants, an international organisation set up to protect intellectual property rights.

"Most of the fake products used to be sold to retailers in Japan, who would then try to sell them to the public," she said. "But customs and the police were able to seize many of those shipments.

"Now they are advertising on websites and sending fakes by post. This means they can conceal their identities more easily and it is much harder for the police to investigate and prosecute because they have no jurisdiction outside Japan."

More than 90 per cent of the fakes originate in China, with Arai saying the criminals were becoming more sophisticated in their techniques.

"We have not estimated the value of these products for our member companies, but they are also very damaging to a company's reputation," she said.

And while many of the fakes are becoming better to the untrained eye, experts say poor stitching or a smell of glue can often give a counterfeit away.

But even retail experts can be caught out, with five big department stores forced to issue recall notices in January after selling 200 Chan Luu bracelets, which sell for as much as ¥30,000, that were copies.

Another lucrative trade involves counterfeit cigarettes, many of which come from North Korea.

 

[TellMeWhy]

Knockoff vendor sent to prison

Global Times | 2014-4-21 22:33:06
By Ni Dandan

A Henan Province man has been sentenced to three years and three months in prison for selling knockoff watches on an overseas online marketplace, a district court said Monday.

The defendant, surnamed Huang, plead guilty to selling counterfeit products, according to a press release from Minhang District People's Court.

In October 2012, Huang and his wife, surnamed Shi, who was also charged in the case, opened separate accounts on the US-based online marketplace, iOffer, where they sold knockoff watches bearing the luxury brand names of Rolex, Louis Vuitton, Breitling, Gucci and Omega, the court said.

iOffer has nearly 100,000 vendors, who need nothing more than a valid credit card to begin selling stuff on the website.

Within half a year, Huang and Shi had won a degree of popularity among consumers from the US and the UK, so they hired English-speaking employees to deal with their overseas customers, the court said. By March 2013, they had sold 787 knockoff watches with a total sales volume of $41,060.

Police arrested the couple the following month. Authorities confiscated 114 counterfeit brand watches at their home.

In court, the prosecution submitted iOffer sales records, delivery receipts, appraisal letters from Louis Vuitton and Gucci Group, and testimony from one of the couple's employees.

Along with the prison sentence, Huang was fined 150,000 yuan ($24,089). The court sentenced Shi to one year of probation and fined her 70,000 yuan.

Judge Tian Lifeng said that counterfeit product sellers have been turning to online marketplaces based overseas to avoid tightening regulations over domestic online trading platforms.

"Domestic online trading platforms have adopted a series of measures to combat the sale of knockoff products, such as actively checking out their vendors and setting minimum prices for certain products," Tian said in the press release. "However, foreign digital trading platforms don't check such sales behavior. Instead, they severely punish businesses that have been found selling knockoffs."

The case of Huang and his wife is the second such case that the court has handled since 2013, said Wu Yixuan, a press officer with Minhang District People's Court.